Refrigerator.



C. G. SIMON, DECD.

e. OLSON, ADMINISTRATOR.

REFRIGERATOR.

APPL| CATION FILED APR. 1.1912- RENEWED JAN. 11.1915. 1,156,252. I Patented Oct.12,1915.

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" e s r CARL G. SIMON, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON; GEORGE OLSON, ADMINISTRATOR 0F SAID SIMON, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR TO L. H. MARKHAM AND C. E. TAYLOR, 0F KING- COUNTY, WASHINGTON.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

REFRIGERATOR.

Application filed April 1, 1912, Serial No. 687,851. Renewed January 11, 1915. Serial No. 1,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL G. SIMON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in' Refrigerators, of which the following is a full, true, and exact specification. u

. The principal object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive but eflicient device, especially adapted todomestic use,.which is constantly kept sufliciently cool for the purpose by the movement of the water in the pipes of an ordinary municipal water system.

' An important featureof the invention is the arrangement of the pipes within the refrigerator whereby they in themselves form I shelves upon which the food or other material is placed so as to directly contact-with the cooled pipes.

The invention will be fully described in the following specification'ancl shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a'front view of the device with a portion of the door of the chest broken away. Fig. 2 is a similar View. of the pipe arrangement. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view upon the line yy of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view of a portion of the pipes upon the line X-X of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the small arrows connected to that line. tary sectional view of the bottom pipes, upon the line zz of Fig. 2. Y

Referring more particularly to the drawings, reference character 1 deslgnates a chest, having the door 2, hinges 3 and latch 4, the walls of which may be of the usual construction of an ordinary ice box; no particular descriptlon of the same is here given as the chest itself forms no part of this invention. Fitting into the two lower corners of the chest 1 are the pipes 5 which are capped at 6, and from which rise the series of p1pes7, upon one side of the chest, and the series of pipes .8 upon the other side thereof. The pipes 7 and 8 follow a serpentine course, as

shown in Fig. 2, and for this reason'each of the pipes 7 is in a different vertical plane from any of the pipes 8, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, so that their horizontal portions lie close to each other in the same plane and Fig. 5 is a fragmen form shelves, as will be understood. At the top is the central pipe. 9 to which are connected the pipes 7 and 8, and which is connected by the elbow 10 to the water inlet pipe 11. The pipes 5 are connected to each other by thecross pipes 12, one ofwhich It is clear that I have provided a shelf forming arrangement of pipes which may be construction and operation of 'my device 1 will be clear to others skilled in the art.

readily fitted into a chest for the purpose I mentioned, and connected, to an. ordinary city water system; that the food, or other perishable substance, may rest directly upon thecooled pipes, and is surrounded by the same; that, aswater is drawn from the faucets for common use, a movement of all the water within the pipes contained within the chest is thereby caused with a resultant cooling of the pipes.

While I have shown a particular form of embodiment of my invention, I am aware that many changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others, without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, and I do not therefore desire to be limited to the exact form shown and described.

Having described my invention, what I claimas new and desire to protect by Let- I ters Patent is 

